Scott Fitzgerald

Republican · WI-5 · U.S. House

Bio

Scott Lawrence Fitzgerald is an American politician and former newspaper publisher. A Republican, he represents Wisconsin's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes many of Milwaukee's northern and western suburbs, such as Waukesha, West Bend, Brookfield, and Mequon. He represented the 13th district in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1995 to 2021.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 282 of 437 by time served
Age: 62

District offices

Oconomowoc, WI · 262-784-1111

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2021

$3.5M

2022

$3.5M

2023

$5.7M

2024

$6.3M

2025

$6.6M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $2.8M – $11.8M
Liabilities: $395k – $900k
Net worth: $1.9M – $11.4M
Since 2021: +$3.1M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 21 assets reported

Dry Head Ranch, 100% Interest$1.0M – $5.0M

One Oak Farm, 100% Interest$1.0M – $5.0M

Scott and Lisa Fitzgerald$250k – $500k

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$100k – $250k

Columbia Seligman Global Technology Fund Class I2 (SGTTX)$15k – $50k

Goldman Sachs GQG Partners International Opportunities Fund Institutional Shares (GSIMX)$15k – $50k

Invesco Exchange Traded Fd Tr S&P 500 Garp Eft$15k – $50k

Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$15k – $50k

Janus Henderson Enterprise Fund - I Shares (JMGRX)$15k – $50k

MRP SynthEquity ETF (SNTH)$15k – $50k

Performance Trust Total Return Bond Fund-Institutional Class (PTIAX)$15k – $50k

PIMCO Income Fund Class I-3 (PIPNX)$15k – $50k

Schwab Prime Advantage M$15k – $50k

VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF (VFLO)$15k – $50k

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP)$1k – $15k

Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD)$1k – $15k

Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF (DBEF)$1k – $15k

Calamos Autocallable Income ETF (CAIE)$1 – $1k

Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF$1 – $1k

Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$1 – $1k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.78

Healthcare

R+0.78

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+0.91

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.83

Crime & Policing

R+0.90

Defense & Veterans

R+0.61

Economy & Labor

R+0.72

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.74

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.57

Education

R+0.95

Government & Democracy

R+0.85

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Scott Fitzgerald's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

92%Closest

62%

26%

17%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

13%

Communist Party USA

12%

On the political map

Scott Fitzgerald (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Fitzgeraldsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Housing and Insurance Financial Institutions
House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 42 members
Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust (Chair)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Fitzgerald's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.